August 19, 2016, Volume 5, Issue 116

08/19/2016

Update: OMA Energy Group filed objections to AEP’s energy efficiency and peak demand reduction (EE/PDR) plan. OMA Energy Group recommended that the PUCO curtail AEP’s ability to earn a customer-funded shared savings incentive. As one example, OMA Energy Group recommended that AEP be prohibited from earning an incentive for simply meeting its EE/PDR benchmark compliance obligations. OMA Energy Group also urged the PUCO to deny AEP’s request to implement the proposed Customer Energy-Efficiency Assessment Survey program because it permits AEP to earn a profit paid by customers from actions that were taken independently by customers outside of a utility-operated program. The PUCO was further urged by OMA Energy Group to modify AEP’s PJM capacity bidding plan to provide benefits to customers from offsetting costs with the PJM revenues obtained and from maximizing bidding strategies that will have price suppression effects on the wholesale capacity market.

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